Over the past few days, the Detroit Pistons players have been at odds with their coach, John Kuester. On Friday, six Piston players, for a variety of explained reasons, did not attend mandatory morning shootaround. This lead to Coach Kuester benching all six of these players for the following game, leaving only six players to play the game. But two days before the shootaround "boycott", Charlie Villanueva re-tweeted this message from a follower onto his Twitter page for all 136,000+ of his followers to see:
"I ride or die for the Stones. But Q doesn't put u guys in the best position to win. Sad too. Talent is there."
The post was quickly deleted, but not before it became a news story. It is hard for me to believe that Villanueva posted this without realizing the possible ramifications. Not after a November incident where he posted a tweet accusing Kevin Garnett of calling him a "cancer patient" during a Celtics/Pistons game. That half the Piston team missed shootaround two days later makes this tweet all the more ominous. It's one thing to disagree with your coach, but it is another thing to make that statement on Twitter, so that the entire world can find out.
by Brent Galietti
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